Cdt-0027 Business Services Project Manager For Procurement

Deadline Date: Tuesday 10 November 2026

Learn more about the general tasks related to this opportunity below, as well as required skills.
Requirement: Business Services Project Manager for Procurement
Location: Brussels, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate:90 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1672 (Estimate)
Required Start Date: 4 January 2027
End Contract Date: 31 December 2027
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
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Tasks
The contractor will provide program/project management and advisory support to CDT to drive the Enterprise Business Services Vision across the NATO Enterprise in the Procurement domain.
The scope of this work includes three tasks:
Project Management, Stakeholder Management and Communication Management
The contractor will drive alignment and collaboration across NATO's enterprise initiatives and business services, ensuring coherence and increased effectiveness across all organizational entities. Responsibilities include:

• Managing projects and initiatives: Execute project and program management of business services initiatives. Ensure delivery of scope within time and budgetary constraints.
• Stakeholder management: Engage regularly with stakeholders across NATO entities, including Procurement, Legal, Finance, HR and others, to promote synchronized efforts toward harmonizing enterprise business services.
• Documenting: Develop and maintain documentation artefact necessary for any of the outlined tasks.
• Managing risks: Maintain risk and issue registries, propose mitigation measures, and address challenges to enhance the successful delivery of business services transformation.

Leading the Procurement Business Services Transformation track
The contractor will act as the main lead for the Business Services Transformation Procurement track, ensuring coherence, streamlined processes and operational excellence across NATO entities. Responsibilities include:

• Procurement stream leadership: Lead and coordinate the Procurement stream under the broader Business Services Transformation effort, acting as the main point of coordination for Procurement-related enterprise initiatives within CDT.
• Enterprise Procurement Process Harmonisation: Lead the Enterprise Procurement Process Harmonisation exercise, including planning, stakeholder engagement, coordination and facilitation of working sessions.
• Dependency management: Identify and manage dependencies between Procurement transformation activities and related enterprise initiatives, including ERP, cloud migration, data platform, Finance, HR and other business services initiatives.
• Decision support: Prepare briefing material, options analyses and recommendations to support senior-level decisions on Procurement transformation, process harmonisation and Procurement cloud/ERP initiatives.

Business Services Advisory (SME Role)
The contractor will provide expert advisory support on Procurement business services, ERP implementation and Procurement-related cloud transformation initiatives, ensuring that Procurement transformation activities are informed by relevant expertise, leading practices and enterprise-wide considerations. Responsibilities include:

• Procurement SME advisory: Provide CDT staff with ad-hoc subject matter expert advice on Procurement business services, ERP implementation, cloud-enabled Procurement solutions and relevant technology considerations.
• Market and leading-practice insight: Advise on market practices, leading practices and lessons learned from large-scale Procurement transformation, ERP implementation and cloud-based Procurement programmes.
• Business and technology